A few select finds of the past months

[Ascaii]

I haven't had a chance to post anything in the past weeks, just been way too busy. I will be posting a few goodies in here...enjoy Thank you to several people that helped me find and buy things...you know who you are, I am ever grateful for your help!


First off: a programmable Numpad, made in 1987. I have the complete, original documentation on how to program it.

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Next, a rare Nixdorf board. I was hoping for transparent blacks, but it "only" had the rare vintage clicky whites.

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Here is something very cool...I got this mainly for my 4 year old son, since I will be setting a computer up for him sometime this year. This MAC ADB keyboard uses clicky alps switches. I have purchased a Griffin iMate, but haven't had a chance to try it yet. The keyboard has a built in foam wrist rest, as well as a foam Dinosaur mousepad and dinosaur mouse. My kid LOVES it.

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I will continue in a second post, due to the picture limit.

[Ascaii]

Next up, a NIB Marquardt Mini. It has Marquardt switches and dye subbed caps.

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Another rare gem I found was this NIB Genovation Numerikeys keypad.
I took two pictures to show you how the vintage cherry switch operates.

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[damorgue]

There is yet another + type stem which I haven't seen before. Why did they use small crosses, larger crosses, crosses missing one flange to make it a T etc? Have the caps kept the same throughout all of these changes? It seems as even the early caps had the symmetric + stem fitting, I wonder if they anticipated slowly going towards a symmetric + shape and were just trolling people.

[rodtang]

Finally some pictures The Numerikeys looks great.

[fossala]

Nice finds Ascaii.

[Ascaii]

yay

[REVENGE]

Yeah Marquadt, the OG Cherry hater's 60% board!

[Daniel Beardsmore]

There is yet another + type stem which I haven't seen before. Why did they use small crosses, larger crosses, crosses missing one flange to make it a T etc? Have the caps kept the same throughout all of these changes? It seems as even the early caps had the symmetric + stem fitting, I wonder if they anticipated slowly going towards a symmetric + shape and were just trolling people.

That's an M8 switch. It's an M81, M82 or M84 depending on the metal used in the contacts; this seems a trivial distinction, but the metal and its properties did lead Cherry to list them as separate switch types, although they share a collective numbering pattern. The keycap has the same mount cross section as MX, but a shorter 6 mm stem. The switch itself has shorter side arms, perhaps to fit it into the mechanism — only the top and bottom arms fill the respective recesses inside the keycap stem.

The M8 appears to be the predecessor of the ML, although the ML has a totally different mount and different internals — M8 was called the "Super Low-profile Series". This series also had covered and uncovered switches (the above are the uncovered ones: totally open at the top, to reduce the height even further; MX compromises by allowing the keycap stem to move down inside the switch) and some M8 switches had M7-style bar stems.

Complicated set of switches.

[Ovoxo]

Nice finds! Glad to see you got the key safely. Unfortunately that's not a prototype 3D skull. I just used a random bag when I sent it out

[yab8433408]

好多好东西啊 老帅了~~~

我喜欢G80-0801~~~

[Daniel]

Definitely jealous of that marquardt mini! Very nice find. Where did you find this?

[rodtang]

Definitely jealous of that marquardt mini! Very nice find. Where did you find this?

ebay.de

[IvanIvanovich]

I wish I could get a hold of one of those Nixdorf. Quite like the AFC pad too. Marquardt mini looks very interesting as well. Nice finds.

[phetto]

DINO KIDZ AND Marquardt Mini looks awesome.

[rodtang]

I wish I could get a hold of one of those Nixdorf. Quite like the AFC pad too. Marquardt mini looks very interesting as well. Nice finds.

There is only one way, hire some goons.